TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE DELUXE LEATHER ED soldes Solomon Northup - Easton Press - SCELLÉ

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Deluxe Leather Edition

Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup

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Description: A Facsimile of the original 1853 edition. True story and basis for the Academy Award winning film. The plastic makes it harder to see just how beautiful this volume is from the photo. A now fairly scarce Deluxe Leather Edition by Easton Press in any condition.

--Published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir andslave narrative by American Solomon Northup, as recounted to and edited byDavid Wilson. Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York State, detailshis being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and soldinto slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana.Northups account provides extensive details on the slave markets in D.C. andNew Orleans, and slave treatment at major plantations in Louisiana. The work was published eight years before theCivil War, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. Northupsbook, dedicated to Stowe, sold 30,000 copies, making it a bestseller in its ownright. After being published in severaleditions in the 19th century and later cited by specialist scholarly works onslavery, the memoir fell into public obscurity for nearly 100 years.

Condition: SEALED in original plastic.***Stock photos of illustrations are from an open copy I sold previously.

ThisFine Leather Book Features:

Top grade, gold embossed/ornamented leather

Gilded page ends to protect against dust and moisture

Decorativeend papers

Acid neutral archival paper to last generations